passwdgen

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
> 
>>>Another question is: does /dev/random have to be so slow? Are any patches 
>>>applied to it's code in PLD kernel that could slow it down? It's just I don't 
>>>believe that author of passwdgen wrote a program that needs hours to produce 
>>>a 10 character password on average system...
>>
>>You can feed it and it will produce much more. Generating entropy based 
>>only on normal computer usage is not so easy.
>>
>>There were two programs which could feed the kernel with entropy from a 
>>v4l source or from a soundcard maybe try these?...
> 
> 
> Some of modern computer systems (including modern PC machines) have
> integrated hardware entropy sources. Unfortunately those drivers don't
> add the entropy to /dev/random, but provide other device.

And maybe you could cat this data into /dev/random?

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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa